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Location:

Columbus,IN,US

Member Since:

Jun 13, 2011

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

37 Marathons -- PR - 2:48:53 (Fall 2014)

A bunch of Half Marathons -- PR - 1:19:20 (Aug. 2015 - Converted)

10k - 36:30 Unaided // 35:25 (July 2014 - Aided)

5k - 17:28 (Aug. 2015)

1mi. - 4:58 (July 2014 - Track)

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

10k and 5k's to get back into the swing of thing this summer

Sept. 21:  Mill Race Marathon - Under 3:00.  LET's GO!  

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

R2R2R in Grand Canyon  5/18/19 

Marathon < 2:45

Half Marathon < 1:18

Top 10 in Bluegrass 10k

5k < 17

Personal:

400m/800m competitively in track in high school.  Took 15 years off. Started running again in 2010.  Married to my beautiful wife, Tiffany, with 2 little boys, now 4 and 6.  I'm a civil engineer working for the Indiana DOT in Seymour, IN.   I live in a slightly larger town about 20 miles north - Columbus, IN.  Originally from Lexington, KY.

 

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Barefoot Running Lifetime Miles: 4.00
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Vilano Road Bike Lifetime Miles: 1216.95
Vilano Bike On Mag Trainer Lifetime Miles: 277.85
Red Peregrine Velcro Lifetime Miles: 314.94
Red Peregrine NO Velcro Lifetime Miles: 171.83
Saucony Kinvara 11 Lifetime Miles: 237.33
Blue Arahi 4.2 Lifetime Miles: 662.17
Nordictrack TM Lifetime Miles: 358.98
Hoka Bondi 7 Lifetime Miles: 325.22
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
286.6914.0022.160.50323.35
Saucony Triumph Miles: 48.6012 - Saucony Kinvara 4 - Neon Miles: 10.00Saucony Kinvara 6 - White Miles: 21.89Saucony Omni 13 - Black Miles: 197.58Elliptical Miles: 14.50Saucony Ride 7 - Black Miles: 16.70Brooks Ravenna 7 Miles: 7.00
Weight: 151.10
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.000.000.000.005.00

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
33.600.000.000.0033.60

Very slow LR - Ran out people trails to town limits of Clifford, IN, and back through town.

33.6 miles - 5:39:46.  There was more than some walking involved today. 

Huma gels turned on me after 4 ofthem.  Stopped at gas station and got a gronola bar and gatorade

Saucony Triumph Miles: 33.60
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.920.000.000.004.92

walk and easy run at lunch at work

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.850.000.000.002.85

easy walks and run at work

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Off - tired and going crazy with the amount of tiredness

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
13.803.000.000.0016.80

AM - TM cutdown at gym - 8.6mph up to 9.6mph.  5miles in 38:50  20 minutes of squats and core activities.

Lunch run - 10miles - mod. at first and then slowed it down.  IT is 80 degrees in October her in October. 1:22:40

2 walks at work

12 - Saucony Kinvara 4 - Neon Miles: 10.00Saucony Kinvara 6 - White Miles: 5.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
15.000.000.000.0015.00

Easy jog over to hospital ER to get stitches pulled.  The wife and several others have informed me of this dated procedure (should be dissolving stitches?)

Anyway - about an hour over there, 45 minutes to get somebody to pull them, and a little longer trip home with a different route.  Finally remembered to look for my headlamp that I lefton light pole - it was gone.

15 total - 2:20:43

Saucony Triumph Miles: 15.00
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Race: Indianapolis Half Marathon (13.109 Miles) 01:20:33, Place overall: 5, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.730.0013.160.0016.89

About an hour drive up 65 to Ben Haris State Park for the Indy Half Mar., newly owned by the IMM race company and has eliminated the full marathon option :( 

Very nice course almost 100% on pavement, with a couple of hilly sections.  Very good weather, also - 50 degrees, a bit of wind, and sunny.  Running bandit today, and feeling apprehensive about even toeing the line prior to race.  Then after some bathroom break and some jogging to loosen up, I do just that - I warm up and stifness/soreness loosens up.  Toe the line near the front and after the gun, quickly discover a stud pulling away from the field and a group of 3 that I recognize as some local elites.  The pack is thick with the rest of us around 1:20 (and up).  It thins out and me and a couple guys and gal seperate and settle into about 6:05-6:10 pace.  The race wears on and I am delighted to find that I am running relaxed and legs not hurting around 6:00 pace on flat ground.  By mile 10-11 I am alone in 5th.  Reamin there until about 12 and a girl is breathing down my neck before I know it.  Kick and cross the line in a unrecorded/unawarded 5th.

Splits:  5:57, 5:58, 6:20, 6:07, 03, 05, 05, 11, 02, 15, 8, 13, 02, 5:05 pace for partial

1st place ran 1:07, 2-4 ran 1:14:XX

Good luck to everybody running Chicago tomorrow. Dont drink to much Goose Island

 

Saucony Kinvara 6 - White Miles: 16.89
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
12.540.000.000.0012.54

Slow, sore, and tired.  Carried a handheld and ate a gel to no avail.  12.5 miles - about 2 hours worth of misery.  New shoes - Saucony Omni 13.  $60 at Edinburgh Outlet

Saucony Omni 13 - Black Miles: 12.54
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
20.000.000.000.0020.00

Med. LR at relaxed effort.  Great weather. Day off work for Columbus Day. Yep, it's a paid holiday for us state workers here in IN. Drained the hand held and 2 gels. Stopped twice for #1 and once for #2... annoying.  Great scenery around Grand View Lake as usual.  Legs were not responding to any kind of climbing, though.  20mi. Total - 2:58:xx

 

Saucony Omni 13 - Black Miles: 20.00
Weight: 150.40
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.800.000.000.005.80

 

AM gym - 10min TM walk and 30 min. Core and stretching. Lunch run - easy 40 min. - 4.4 miles.

 

 

 

Saucony Omni 13 - Black Miles: 5.80
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.205.000.000.0010.20

AM - easy 30 min. TM - 3.2mi.  15 minutes of squats

Lunch - 5mi. AT - outside, and still running shirtless  7 total - 51:02  AT = about 6:35-6:50

Saucony Omni 13 - Black Miles: 10.20
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
3.604.000.000.007.60

AM - TM at gym - 4 mi. AT cutdown - 9mph up to 10.4 mph.  5.6 mi. total - 41:30

Walking

Saucony Omni 13 - Black Miles: 5.60
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
6.500.002.000.509.00

AM - TM run at gym - 20min. Hill Builder - 4% up to 10% followed by 6 x PUs - 11mph up to 12mph

walking at work and easy jog at lunch - about 2 miles

Saucony Omni 13 - Black Miles: 9.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.400.000.000.007.40

AM - easy hour on the TM w/ some varying speed, incline.  7.4 mi. - 60

Saucony Omni 13 - Black Miles: 7.40
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
33.840.000.000.0033.84

Long Run - start at 9 am.  humidity still high and temps climbed to 80 by the end of the run.  Started off well - kept it in the 8-8:45 range through about 23 miles.  Ran out of water about that point and went without for about 20 minutes.  Never caught back up on hydration after refilling handheld.  Nasty downward spiral.  Walked the last 2 miles.  33.84 miles total - 5:23:48. 

Tapering down on the LR's up until Nov. 12

Saucony Omni 13 - Black Miles: 33.84
Weight: 150.40
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OFF today - time to get serious about recovering from all these LR's.  Walking at the end of the last 2LR's must be telling me something...

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gym rat - 45 minutes - 25min. on elliptical, and then core and lunges for about 20 min.

Elliptical Miles: 4.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.200.000.000.007.20

5 miles lunch run really slow and 2 walks at work.

Also, Squats Circuit and core - about 25min.

Saucony Omni 13 - Black Miles: 7.20
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
1.002.002.000.005.00

4 miles cutdown on TM.  9.7 up to 10.4 mph.  5 total - 32:35

Saucony Omni 13 - Black Miles: 5.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.200.000.000.002.20

2.2 mile TM walking, and 20 minutes on Elliptical.

Elliptical Miles: 3.50
Weight: 154.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
17.000.000.000.0017.00

AM TM run at gym in Col.  - 2 restarts, 2 bathroom breaks, 2 gels and almost entire handheld.  I am fatigued and sore, even after a down weak.  17mi. - 2:32:32

Saucony Omni 13 - Black Miles: 17.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
29.000.000.000.0029.00

11 am Long Run.  Out and baclk on People Trail out to Fire Station/airport.  Much better weather, and consequently, much more encouraging resulting run/performance.  Stopped a couple times for Number 1's, refill on water, and 1 No. 2.  Ate 3 gels and roughly 2 full handhelds of water.  29 miles - 3:55:52.  Stayed around the 8 minute range most of the way and was pretty comfortable.  Last long run before the 100M.  Maybe a 18-20mi. next week. and then maybe bandit half marathon in Indy if feeling fresh.

Saucony Omni 13 - Black Miles: 29.00
Weight: 149.60
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.650.000.000.002.65

Walking + 15 Stairmaster, 15 elliptical, 15min. core

Elliptical Miles: 7.00Saucony Omni 13 - Black Miles: 2.65
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.920.000.000.005.92

walk and 5 mile lunch run - about 8 min. pace and feeling fresh and strong in some cooler temps

Saucony Ride 7 - Black Miles: 5.92
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
5.920.000.000.005.92

walk and an easy lunch run at work.  5 mi. - 42 min.

Saucony Ride 7 - Black Miles: 5.92
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
13.930.005.000.0018.93

walk at work and lunch TM workout at the gym:

2x2mi. and 2x0.5mi. @ HMP - 10mph was about right.  7 total - 45:34

PM run to White River Pub Run from house and back.  Wore all my running gear as my costume - the "Overprepared Runner" costume in full effect.  Some other guy wore the same costume at the run :)  11mi. total - 1:41

Brooks Ravenna 7 Miles: 7.00Saucony Omni 13 - Black Miles: 11.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.860.000.000.004.86

2 walks and easy 3 miles at Muskatatuck at lunch.

Saucony Ride 7 - Black Miles: 4.86
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.350.000.000.0010.35

AM - easy 90 minutes - 1:33.  Out and back to Tipton

Saucony Omni 13 - Black Miles: 10.35
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
11.000.000.000.0011.00

easy 11 miles in early afternoon.  1:35ish.  It is almost 80 degrees - shirtless run with sunscreen. 

Saucony Omni 13 - Black Miles: 11.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
1.880.000.000.001.88

Day Off Running.  Back pain... :(  walked at work a couple of times.  Serious taper/recovery time. 

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
286.6914.0022.160.50323.35
Saucony Triumph Miles: 48.6012 - Saucony Kinvara 4 - Neon Miles: 10.00Saucony Kinvara 6 - White Miles: 21.89Saucony Omni 13 - Black Miles: 197.58Elliptical Miles: 14.50Saucony Ride 7 - Black Miles: 16.70Brooks Ravenna 7 Miles: 7.00
Weight: 151.10
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